Etherpad
Office Suites
Highly customizable online editor providing collaborative editing in real-time.
Actively maintained
Real momentum
Apache-2.0
Collaboration suite built to enable collaboration, synchronizing changes to documents in real time.
CryptPad is an open-source office suites project, with 7.8k GitHub stars and a health score of 66/100. It committed 847 times in the last twelve months across 9 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.
| Status | Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-05-26 |
| Days since last commit | 83 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 0 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 847 |
| Months with activity | 9 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-05-26 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Category | Office Suites |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
CryptPad is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.
The clearest opening in the dataset. Low open-source competition usually means either a genuinely underserved need or a market too small to attract volunteers — validate demand before assuming the former.
Slowing down. CryptPad recorded 847 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 9 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-05-26. Last release: 2026-05-26. Commits have thinned out over the last year.
CryptPad is published under AGPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
6 open-source implementations, 2 of them actively maintained, led by Etherpad at 18k stars. Saturation score 18/100 — Open. Thin or poorly maintained open-source coverage.
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